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Early settlers
arrived in this area between 1812 and 1823. Originally known as Rice,
it was renamed Ischua on March 27, 1855. The first public house was
built in 1816 and other hotels followed. Industries included a hat
factory, a brick yard, a foundry for plows, sleigh shoes and castings,
a tannery, and wagon maker. There was a basket factory in the early
1900s.
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Cheese factories
abounded, as well as a creamery. At one time there were numbers of
farms, but now they are mainly horse farms. Today, it is basically
a bedroom community and it is hard to imagine that this was once a
bustling, booming rural community.
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The Main Street
is located on Route 16 and travelers passing through can see the one-room
schoolhouse and the remaining large Victorian homes that have been
spared by fires and demolition by the State of New York as it straightened
Route 16 through Ischua. Sadly many of the trees that graced the town
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From an article
by Rose Edwards De Cordova, Ischua Historian
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There is a book entitled, The
History of Ischua, N.Y., Ferguson Printing, 1994 - Compiled
by: Sally Squire Pettengill - 289 pages.
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